04
Aug
The Fort Stanwix Tea Party Patriots
This may be the greatest Meetup page ever. Check out the topics: Glenn Beck, 9/12, We Surround Them, Tea Party, Liberty. It’s for the group that went nuts on Steny Hoyer today in Rome, NY.
I also think that Tea Party Patriots would be a good name for a band.
Update. Here’s a directory of all 9/12, We Surround Them, Tea Party, Liberty meetup groups. Somewhat terrifyingly, my local one has 560 members.
Cat Lady
Sorry to go OT before we got on topic, but the Clenis shows up in Pyongyang, and bang. That Kim Jong Il is just a big kid- all he wants is a little attention.
Just Some Fuckhead
They can be trained!
General Winfield Stuck
Punk?
PaulW
You know the country is in the sh-ts when the Republicans are rioting on the streets.
General Winfield Stuck
Punk?
sorry my clipboard is actin foony.
EchoesNoBunnynoMan a variation
Jeezuz Chryslers who does the designs on wingnut webpages? Why are they all such shitty layouts? Do these people have no idea on how to execute a decent visual presentation?
MikeJ
I can just see City Paper circa 1984:
Friday at the 9:30, New Model Army, Tea Party Patriots, Minutemen.
Colette
@EchoesNoBunnynoMan a variation:
Brains stuck in 50s, fingers stuck in fly. SATSQ.
Beeb
@ General Winfield Stuck:
Polka.
blahblahblah
It takes a communist to negotiate with a communist. I’m just say’n.
dr. bloor
They’re going to use their constitutional rights to “effect elections?” Ok, sure.
The photo looks like a marching band on an ether binge.
dr. bloor
They’re going to use their constitutional rights to “effect elections?” Ok, sure.
Their photo looks like a picture of a marching band on an ether binge.
4tehlulz
Websense does me a favor for once:
Content blocked by your organization
Reason: This Websense category is filtered: Social Networking and Personal Sites.
URL: http://9-12-we-surround-them-t.....eetup.com/
Why does Websense hate America?
cleek
there’s one lone douchebag “waiting” for a group, in my town.
i bet it’s this guy (who now has a big spray-painted sign complaining about the horrors of ObamaCare)
Bootlegger
“United in our hatred of the Dark Pretender on the Throne!”
Bill ORLY
Jesus wept. Now I remember why I left Upstate NY.
Can we organize a fundraiser to hire them somebody with some web design talent? Also?
SpotWeld
This is like the world’s most confused LARPing event.
Elie
If we are thinking about the rules for the tit for tat game described before on another thread, using these tea baggers is an escalation that will require a similar response from team Obama. Will be interesting to see what the punishment will be for this…(See wikepedia – the prisoner’s dilemma and Axelrod’s research in this area)..
I suspect that team Obama has a response ready to go…
Zifnab
@Bootlegger: I can almost hear the Star Wars Imperial March music playing in the background.
Morbo
If you want to have some real fun, I invite you to compare these maps with those from Huffpo’s fundrace. One of the ones I see in my area is glaringly close to someone who gave $4700 to—brace yourself—Ron Paul. I know, shocker, right?
What the hell… we have two of them up here, totalling 84 members. There are only 140,000 people here! That’s 12 times the concentration of crazy you have, Doug.
The Grand Panjandrum
Deep Thought: Why do these righties suddenly have time to protest during the middle of the week when ‘real Americans’ should be at work?
It’s hard out there of a simp.
freelancer
DougJ:
“I also think that Tea Party Patriots would be a good name for a band.”
pre-emptively 1-upped you in a dead thread:
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?.....nt-1319408
The Grand Panjandrum
BTW does anyone think we should allow upstate NY to secede?
The Grand Panjandrum
@The Grand Panjandrum: It’s hard out there
offor a simp. Sigh. I guess I’m one of’em. I can’t even fucking proofread one sentence. .... ....SpotWeld
@The Grand Panjamdrum
I think that would break some sort of treaty we have with Canada.
freelancer
Also, from the meetup page, Billie Stan sez:
America is so patriot!
Ash Can
@Beeb: I will not stand idly by and have polka music defamed in this manner. What did an accordion ever do to you?
Olliander
Somewhat OT, but what’s the point of the “9/12” teaparty?
Due to my personal experience on 9/11, I get a tad pissed when I see things like this for political or personal gain, to say the least. This just smacks of grandstanding and it irks me to no end.
Either that, or it’s just terrible marketing. Or maybe its both. Or maybe I’m just way out in left-field on this one.
/vent
Anne Laurie
WIN!
(But don’t say that directly to any of these poor morans… they probably think ‘larping’ is code for one of those dirty sexx things like kidz thees dayz is always going on about.)
Elie
Here is link on Axelrod’s game theory based work on cooperation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.....ooperation
There will be a retaliation for this escalation—
The tea baggers are not a true grass roots reaction but a manufactured distraction where the insurance industry and their minions in the media and Republican party are using the emotions from racism and culture wars to make the appearance of opposition to health care reform. Its a ploy to manipulate these poor dupes and other dupes in the national audience to believe that there is rank opposition to health care change, when its really just more of the same emotional opposition to general change implicit in Obama’s election funneled into this issue.
The poor and blue collar white undereducated, scare mark being played again…
SpotWeld
@Olliander
When Beck finally announces the general concept, I imagine the details will be documented in the subscription only section of his website…
cleek
“We Surround Them”
as if.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Don’t forget The Rainmakers – they had a song from that same era ranting about the evils of government cheese. Truly ahead of their time.
freelancer
Lol, I now owe my office an explanation of why the hell I’m gut laughing.
(Holding up bible) “This is the truth! This is the only truth!”
JUST SAY NO!”
“JUST SAY NO
“The Gubmint better stay the hell out of my Medicare!”
“Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt!”
“Democrat Senator Dodd better keep the federal gov’t out of my life, and better not cancel my disability!”
MikeJ
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: ~I wasn’t commenting on lyrics, merely names.
Sean
It would seem to me that hosting an event that is designed to incite people to violence, probably violates meetup.com’s Terms Of Service:
What do you think the odds are of meetup.com banning any of these groups?
-Sean
jules
There is a post on DKOS today explaining how a group in Indiana was able to sill have their townhall meeting with Rep. Pete Visclosky (D, IN-01) on Monday without the crazies taking control.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....ons-shared.
The only thing I would add is Dems running these townhalls need to limit the folks inside to only the people who are actually represented by the speaker. I bet there would be a lot less shouting if they just cut out the operatives who are bussed in.
handy
Steny Hoyer? That douchebag? I say let ‘em hassle him, that way he can see what nutcase radicals really look like in this country and leave all us unserious DFHs alone.
slappy
I like how they have to explicitly say they are “non-violent” in the first line. Cuz you know a lot of them would like to get violent so i guess they need to find another meetup.
joe from Lowell
Friday at the 9:30, New Model Army, Tea Party Patriots, Minutemen.
aka, “New Model Army, Drink at the bar, Minutemen.”
yeowzuh
@ Morbo—Huffpo’s fundraising info layover would be interesting—but I’d also be interested in (or depressed by) seeing the meetup map laid over the hate group map at SPLC http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp
Comrade Darkness
@Bootlegger: Ohhh, let me guess, Chrissie Hynde?
Jay in Oregon
@EchoesNoBunnynoMan a variation:
That meetup page reminds me of the annoying yellow ribbon magnets where the gap in the center map is made into a heart, and there’s an extra heart-shaped magnet with “God Bless USA” or “I love USA” or some such nonsense.
I described it as “maximizing patriotism per square inch”.
Comrade Darkness
@The Grand Panjandrum: I WAS thinking of going to cooperstown for some art and opera, but I’m now thinking I should stick around and provide sanity for Maffei’s next Meet the Congresscritter thingie…
Jay in Oregon
@Anne Laurie:
Actually, you’d be surprised how many keyboard commandos like to LARP or play paintball on their weekends.
Make ‘em feel an manly and such, and carries less hazard than actualy going Over There to fight for their country.
(I’m sure every one of them has a sob story about how tried they to enlist, or how they feel their skillz on the blogs is just as important in its own way.)
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
By all means, do drop by their photo gallery. Possibly dozens attended their July 4th event; I felt surrounded just looking at the pictures.
dr. bloor
@Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon):
The geezer holding the “No National Healthcare” sign in photo 28 was particularly amusing. I wonder if maybe, just maybe he’s got a Medicare card in his wallet.
Nitwit.
zoe kentucky
They’re mostly crazy, angry rude people—if they’re exposed to be as much it’ll backfire.
Yes, we are all worried that the MSM will portray them as part of some greater uprising against healthcare reform, however, since everyone is already talking about how they are part of a orchestrated “campaign” to disrupt townhall meetings (as was just characterized on NPR) then we have a very good chance of turning their craziness against them. Mostly what we need is to show up to these meetings with video cameras/cellphone cameras/etc. Get them on tape screaming that health care reform makes Obama just like a nazi—don’t be afraid to ask them questions about their medicare, medicaid or social security disability benefits. Oh, and by all means, ask them about Obama’s birth certificate, they won’t be able to help themselves.
These are Palin’s biggest supporters, these are people who idolize Glenn Beck for fart’s sake—they’re not the brightest and can be outmanuvered. It’s just going to take a little work and some confidence that we can do it.
Jen7
These protestors are completely IGNORANT. The Bush tax cuts are still in place until 2011, unless Obama repeals them
! Do they even KNOW that?
These otherwise decent people are being LIED to by organizations and conservative talk radio. Insurance lobbyists are actually USING these decent people by urging them to go out and disrupt town hall meetings. How blind are these guys?!?
And where is the media to tell the truth about it?!?
CalD
Tea Party Patriots would be an excellent name for a band.
Ripley
From my neck of the woods, southern New Mexico: “Start a Meetup Group for the 1 people waiting.”
He surrounds us.
A-Ron
Check out the newest member at the link:
Doug Johnson
“Because we need to stop teh socialism.”
LOL
Koz
“Somewhat terrifyingly, my local one has 560 members.”
Some astroturfing.
Jaquestraw
where is the proof that these people are being manipulated by corporations or politicians.I haven’t seen any evidence.I think these people are upset over the facts.If they are victims of misinformation why can’t these politicians set them straight,that is why they hold these meetings in the first place.